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...campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore for perjury: "Such blanket denunciations smack more of Prague than of the traditions of Western justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Through British Eyes | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Provost is expected to submit his recommendation on tuition to the Corporation within the near future. It is likely that any recommendation will include a blanket tuition...

Author: By George S. Abrams and Michael Maccoby, S | Title: Tuition Rise Threatens Scholarships and Loans | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...trickle; the recently installed crap tables (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), having failed to attract Americans in any quantities, were merely confusing the other customers, who stood around in baffled silence as the croupiers intoned such unfamiliar phrases as "I'm so hot I won't need a blanket tonight." In recent years, the Casino had lost money, and Prince Rainier, who gets 10% of the take in profitable years, was looking for some $1,000,000 in new capital. Three of the Casino's directors were out lining up money, when Onassis hove into sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Man Who Bought the Bank | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Blanket. All day long and long into the night the rescuers fought the waves. White-crested combers tore a gaping hole in the ship's iron side and a yawning fissure opened midships (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Crew and passengers huddled, six to a blanket, on the sharply listing foredeck where Pere Lechat, the priest in charge of the French pilgrims, gave absolution to everyone aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Wreck of the Champollion | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...into a roaring fire at the foot of the stairway, and together rescued Mrs. Bamford and three of the children. Then they remembered Brian, 6, and Roy, 4. They were trapped in Jack's back bedroom; and the second floor was in flames. Father wrapped himself in a blanket and tried to rush upstairs, but fell back before the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: I Didn't Really Do Owt | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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